She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATON
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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